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Forster, E.M. Maurice. 1971) New York: Signet, 1973. This novel in 1914 but didn’t allow its publication until after his death, and he lived a very long time. It’s fortunate that he lived after Stonewall, and so this book was able to get read at a time that gays and lesbians were actively fighting for equal rights. Playboy. Of all people called the book The literary sensation of the year! Or at least so the back cover of my supercrappy Signet edition (not pictured left) says. Posted by Dusty at 9:31 AM.

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Link, Kelly. Magic for Beginners. Northampton: Small Beer P, 2005. I first read Kelly Link in the summer of 2003 while lying on my belly half-out of some friends’ tent in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. Say a half-hour outside Carlisle. We were on a camping trip for the Fourth, and these friends were meeting older friends, all of whom were hiking while I decided to stay and read the McSweeney’s Thrilling Tales. My favorite story is the title story, which is mostly about a TV show called The Library.

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Casagrande, June. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite. New York: Penguin, 2006. Much of what I know on grammar i.e., those parts of language structures that are distinct from usage and styles I learned in high-school German. Ours is, as you know, a Germanic language, and while the Germans may throw all their additional verbs in their infinitive forms at the end of a sentence (hence: Es hätte ein bessere Tee werden können. It [subjunctive form of the verb to have.

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Didion, Joan. Miami. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. What kept me going was Didion's sentences, which are, as always, beautiful. I think with this book more than any other of hers I've read what she's leaning on most heavily is the periodic sentence; the one that saves for the end the sentence's most important point. It's such an elegant form in the way it lets commas drop like dead animals from the reaching boughs of her sentences:. Here's another passage, one more toward Didion's general point and ...

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Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. A Dutchman told me a couple weeks ago that this book was better than Foer's first, Everything is Illuminated. I'm here to tell you this Dutchman was as wrong as he was gorgeous, which by golly. It's unfair to do this, to take a book and hold it up in judgement next to its predecessor, but this is the curse of the "sophomore effort" isn't it? Doesn't it happen in all areas of existence? Posted by Dusty at 10:57 AM.

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Isherwood, Christopher. Goodbye to Berlin. 1939) New York: New Directions, 1945. I'm very much in love with Christopher Isherwood of late. His self-directed-yet-self-negating sensibility something something something. I'm oddly having one hell of a time writing about this book, probably because I'm too busy thinking about this one. Isherwood's book is famous, even if you've never heard of it. Here's the second paragraph:. He will never tell me anything about himself, or about the things which are most im...

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. 1872) New York: Washington Square P, 1963. This novel is greater than most others I've ever read. It deals with money, law, medicine, religion/the clergy, inheritance, property, farming, railroads, love, gypsies, and more and more and more. It is the exact wrong novel to read in a week's time. Comparable books to this I've read include:. I haven't had a lot of time to devote to supremely dense and long novels.). Posted by Dusty at 5:10 PM. White, Edmund. A Boy's Own Story.

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Cather, Willa. Lucy Gayheart. 1935) New York: Vintage Classics, 1995. I have the blues. The semester is nearing completion, and the month of May May! Doesn’t everything incredible happen in May? Is coming up, the month when I can start reading the books I want and need to read, like, for instance, the new Leavitt biography of Turing, Vollman’s Europe Central. Love that is pure (for one’s art, for one’s artists) cannot last, is destined for doom? I think Cather’s career is a bell curve are all writers’?

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Cunningham, Michael. A Home at the End of the World. New York: Picador, 1999. Posted by Dusty at 9:16 AM. Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1890) New York: Modern Library, 2004. I have to run and catch a plane. I Finished! This two days ago and didn't love it. I like it, but I didn't love it. I love its opening sentence-paragraph:. I don't like chapter XI, its catalogue of objets d'art, its dull, litanic depiction of an aesthete becoming more decadent. Posted by Dusty at 2:21 PM. I can't quite ex...

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Cather, Willa. The Professor's House. 1925) New York: Vintage, 1973. Maybe these need to be read in context, but this book is full of such well-spoken joys. Cather's such an economic writer; that is, a writer of great economy (though she writes often about economics). I'm not always interested in this, but I can appreciate it when I see it. Posted by Dusty at 1:54 PM. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813 Ed. Pamela Norris. London: Everyman, 1996. I think my professor wants us to read this as a comedy ...